Gas-range.



J. ROY.

GAS RANGE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1913.

111161111111 July 21, 19121 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

J. ROY.

GAS RANGE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1913...-

Patel lted July 21, 1914 2 sums-$33172.

UNITED STATES PATENT onnron'.

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GAS-RANGE.

the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvementsin gas ranges, and pertains particularly to gas ranges in which a number of burners are arranged in a horizontal line and the oven positioned in the rear of some of the burners. I

The object of my invention is to provide an oven' door so arranged that it can be read-' ily opened or closed from the side of the stove so that the door will not interfere with the burners or anything on the burners in front thereof.

Another object of my invention is to provide a rangeof this character in which the bottom of thebroiler oven is located in a horizontal line slightly above the burners and positioned above the same is the baking oven, one set of burners being used for the two ovens. The door for the broiler oven is so arranged that it does not interfere with the burners in front of the oven, nor does it interfere with the burners between the .two

ovens.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a simple and more effective arrangement of the ovens and burners and the door for the lower oven, as will be hereinaftermore fully described.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 .is a front view of an improved gas range embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective detached view of the door for the broiler oven showing the counterbalancing feature. Fig; 3 is a vertical longitudinal view of a part of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 1-4 of Fi 1.

Feferring now to the drawings, 1 repre sents the base of my improved range, which is supported by legs 2 ,'or in any other manner desired. Supported by the base 1 is a frame 3, in which are arranged across the front three burners 1 and two side burners, all of which structure is well understood and needs no further description.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed January 23, i913. Serial a... 743,864.

Patented July 21, 1914.

At one side of the side burners and in the rear of the two front burners at'the right of the base and supported by the frame 3 is a broiler oven 4: Above the broiler oven is a baking oven 5. Between the broiler oven and the baking oven are arranged a number of horizontal elongated burners 6, supplied with gas by means of a pipe 7, leading downwardly and connected to the main gas supply pipe 8. The pipe 8, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, supplies gas to the front and side burners of the stove and is provided with valves 9 for controllin the gas thereto. The pipe 8 is provide with a valve 10, which controls the gas to the pipe 7, whereby the burners 6 between the baking and broiling ovens are controlled.

The frame 3, supported by the base 1 at the rear, is provided with an extension 11,

which extends out as far as the rear of the ovens and is ing 12.

In ranges of this character it has been found diflicult to arrange the door 13 of the broiler oven so that it will neither interfere with the burners in front thereof, or Withthe burners between the two ovens when the same is open or closed, or during the open ing and closing of the same. In my improvided with a vertical backproved range, the door is so arranged that it slides within the frame 3, below the baking oven and in no way interferes with either of the burners in front of the same, or the burners between the two ovens.

The front wall of the broiler oven, at each side of the door opening, is provided with brackets 14 and 15, which are. preferably bolted thereto. The rear ends of the brackets are provided with offset portions 16, to which are pivotally secured the arms 17 and 18, carried by the door 13 of the broiler oven. These brackets, as shown, have their forward endsapproxiinately U-shaped, as indicated at 19, and have laterally turned cars 20 by means of which they are secured to the inner face of the door. The arms 17 and 15 extend approximately from the center of the U-shaped portion and are set straight at a point opposite to the pivbtal connection with the offset portions 16 of the ar ns it and 15. The arms 18 are bent upwardly from said pivotal point and have rigidly carried by their outer ends the weights 2'1 and 92. These weights 21 and 22, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings,- have the reduced forward portions 23 and the solid rear portion 24, making the weight much heavier at the weights carried thereby, itwill be seen that when thedoor 13 is in its closed position, the weights 21 and 22 are in position, as shown in Fig. 4, to normally hold the door in said closed position. When the door'is swung downwardly by means of the handle 26, in the position shown in dotted lines Fig. 4, the weight of the door is sufficient to counterbalance the rear enlarged portions 2 1 'of the weights, as the forward reduced ends of the weights are beyond a vertical line of the pivot of the arms" and do not have any effect upon the arms to cause the door to open. In other words this ortion of the weight beyond the center or pivot of the arm counterbalances a portion of the weight and the weight of the door is greatly in excess of the unbalanced portion of the weight, and the door will remain in the open position shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing.

By the arrangement and construction of the door of the broiler oven, it will be seen thatthe same can be operated from the side of the range, and it will not interfere at all with theburnel's in front of the same, nor with any pot or kettle that may be upon the burners; nor does it interfere at all with the burners between the broiler oven and the baking oven.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

1. The combination with a range having a burner at the front thereof, of an oven in rear of and in a horizontal plane above the burner and having an opening in its front wall, a door for said opening and having a movement in an arc of a circle inside of a vertical plane with the burner and adapted to swing below the oven when in an open positlon.

2. The combination with a range having a rigidly secured to the rear ends of the arms and having reduced forward ends, said door having a swinging movement in rear of a vertical plane with the burner whereby the door is overbalanced by the weights and held closed and the door when open overbalances the weights and is held open.

I 3. The combination with a range having a burner at the front thereof, of a grating above the burner, an oven in rear of the gratingand having its lower end in a horizontal plane with the grating, said oven having an opening in its front wall, a doo1 for said opening and having a movement in rear of a vertical plane with the'burner and adapted to swing below the bottom of the oven.

4. The combination with a range having aburner at the front thereof, of an oven in rear of and in a horizontal plane abovethe burner and having an opening in its front wall, a door for said opening, arms having bifurcated forward ends secured to the inner face of the door and extending within the oven, the said arms pivoted intermediate their ends, and having their rear portions turned upwardly at an angle beyond the pivot, weights rigidly secured to the extreme rear ends of'the upwardly turned portion of the arms, and having reduced forward ends secured to the rear ends of the arms, whereby the said door has a swinging movement in rear of a vertical plane with the burners, and is over-balancedby the weights and held closed, and the door when open, overbalances the weights and is held open.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

J OSEPH ROY. Witnesses:

L. MfKELLY, J. M. SOURBEGK. 

